Will Vince says Wanderers have already defied the odds this season but the season ticket holder is hoping for one more push against Northampton...

To many of football’s lower league observers, outside of the Wycombe Wanderers circle, last weekend would have been considered as nothing short of a disaster.

Having the benefit of an, albeit, slender advantage over promotion rivals Southend and Bury, Wycombe contrived to slip up at home to mid-table Morecambe and relinquish pole position for automatic promotion to League One.

As the game ticked into its final seconds I, like many others, watched on in frustration as results elsewhere typically, as they have done for a number of weeks, went against Gareth Ainsworth’s men.

Upon leaving the stadium the realisation of the improvement in the club’s fortunes over the last 12 months quickly dampened down the emotions I was feeling from a truly disappointing afternoon.

364 days previously I had witnessed the Wanderers lose in disastrous fashion to relegation rivals Bristol Rovers, the potential consequences of relegation from the Football League didn’t bare thinking about.

That said, if Wycombe Wanderers go on to miss out on promotion this season I will be as gutted as I was when we came up short in the two previous play-off campaigns.

Those Chairboy sides, however, were dealing in a Wycombe Wanderers era when large squads with high earning players were the norm and therefore expectation was always that much greater.

What Gareth Ainsworth has done this season is defy the odds and maximise the slender resources that he’s had to operate with. Many clubs that are in the headlines at the moment have relied on vast sums of money to get where they are; Wycombe’s success isn’t about money but sheer work rate and determination.

Even if Wycombe had won last weekend they would still have to at least equal Southend’s result in this weekend’s last round of matches in the regular season to secure promotion.

Although matters would still be very much in the teams’ own hands, Wycombe fans know that it’s never quite as straight forward as we would like to imagine.

What we do know is that Wycombe Wanderers football club has a strong association with defying the odds and achieving the seemingly unthinkable.

Wycombe will, and must, go to Northampton Town this Saturday and play as if matters are still in their own hands. Just like Torquay last year, an early goal could give the other teams the jitters and who knows, maybe the next chapter of Wycombe Wanderers fairy tales will be written.